The award -winning Cannes actress dies at 43

The award -winning Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne died of cancer at the age of 43.

Dequenne went to fame when he won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival at the age of 18 For the film Rosetta in 1999.

She won another Cannes award for the Raison (our children) in 2012, and received a César, one of the main honors of France films, to choose them qu’on dit, choose you qu’on fait (the things we say, the things we do) in 2021.

She acted mainly in French films, but also appeared as a police officer Laurence Readud in the 2014 The Missing BBC Drama.

Rosetta, a moving story about the fight of a teenager to overcome a life of misery, was Dequenne’s first role.

He had been unemployed after losing his job in a food factory when he was chosen for the paper.

“The first day he filmed in front of a real camera, he managed to unite the entire team,” said Luc Dardenne, who directed him with his brother Jean-Pierre, he said In a tribute to the RTBF station.

“It improved better and better as the session progressed … she was magnificent and the movie owes her a lot.”

In the disappearance, he played Laurence Relaud, starring James Nesbitt as the father of a child who disappears during a family vacation.

His other films included the Fille Du Rer of 2009 (The Girl on the Train), the genre Pas are from 2014 (not my guy) and the nominee to Cannes Close of 2022 Cannes.

Others who pay tribute included the French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati, who wrote: “Francophone cinema has lost, too soon, a talented actress who still had a lot to offer.”

Dequenne revealed in October 2023 that he suffered from adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), a adrenal gland cancer.

In one of his last Instagram publications, for World Cancer Day in February, She wrote: “What a hard fight! And we didn’t choose …”